Toronto Exhibition Camp
J. A. McDougall B Co. 97 Batt.

Dear sister,-

I suppose this will seem like a letter from the dead but I am pretty much alive at that hope you are the same. I've been sick in the hospital for a week been vaccinated & inoculated. I don't know whether that is spelled write but I know what is anyway I had one today & I'm feeling the effects now but I guess that you are germ proof after you go through all that. Well this soldier life is as follows get up at six a.m. make up your bunk then wash & shine your buttons & fall in for roll call then breakfast 7 a m bacon & spuds every morning the same bill of fare the fall out until 9 a m & fall in for parade & drill till 12 that's noon then dinner mostly Mulligan (?) you now what that is Irish stew then you have until two - too then more drill or else a route march until 4.30 p m then you are dismissed can go out until 930 p m when there is another roll call & go to bed lights out at 10 p m of course you can get a pass till 12 P.M. about once a week or ten day so you see we have to keep pretty good hours, well I've told you about myself pretty well now. I like Toronto pretty well but its streets are not wide enough for a nice city & it seems old fashioned kind of behind the times we are right on the shore of Lake Ontario & say the wind can blow some cold off the lake. I would rather have 50 below zero weather in the west than 15 below here it has not been quite that cold here but that damp wind felt colder. Well how do you like married life. I hope you enjoy yourself & hope your husband is well give him my best regards you will have to forgive me for not writing sooner or for not sending you a little wedding present but live in "hopes" with lots of love to everybody I am still your loving brother.
Excuse writing there is about a dozen fellows writing here & this table moves about like a (?) on the Ocean
write soon